"United States of Eurasia" was the first song title to be confirmed as on The Resistance, after fans worked it out from a photograph of its sheet music uploaded on the band's Twitter profile.

[6] After the fan community unlocked all six sample segments of the song promised by the treasure hunt on 20 July; a message was then displayed on the project page, ordering viewers to report back soon for an "emergency flash briefing.

On 20 July at approximately 12:00 PM (BST), the treasure hunt site "Ununited States of Eurasia" updated its map to include America and a banner reading "RECOGNITION FROM USA REQUESTED" with co-ordinates to a street in New York.

[11] Following the conclusion of the treasure hunt on 21 July 2009, the song was made available for download[12] from the microsite, complete with ending piano sonata "Collateral Damage", a slightly altered version of Frédéric Chopin's Nocturne in E-flat Major, with additional sounds of playing children and a line of a jet fighter dropping nuclear bombs at the end of the arrangement, leading directly into the album's next track, "Guiding Light".

Music magazine NME published a pre-release interview with the band on 7 July, identifying "United States..." as one of the highlights of the album and describing how it "builds into a climax of multi-tracked Queen-style vocals.